Britain’s Olympic hero Dom Parsons celebrates with bronze but has revealed he only took up skeleton due to a hangover a decade ago

And just over a decade later, he has won Britain’s first medal of these Winter Olympics with a bronze in the skeleton.

The man who twisted Parsons’ arm was skeleton athlete Adam Pengilly — now an International Olympic Committee member, who was sent home in disgrace from PyeongChang 24 hours before his protege won his medal.

Parsons, 30, said: “The skeleton was great fun and a great hangover cure. Adam is the one to blame.

“We were at a barbecue and I stayed on my friend’s couch.

Dom Parsons wins bronze for Great Britain in men’s skeleton at Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang